Maria Luisa Jorda Castro is a director of the Grupo Bimbo bakery company and of Orange Spain, a Spanish subsidiary of the French multinational telecommunications company Orange. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Merlin Properties, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and Member of
How much does the rise in prices of semiconductor chips weigh on global inflation? What follows is the response given by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of a report released on Tuesday. The explanation begins like this: the Covid-19 crisis triggered large price movements in some
The United States economy remained strong in the second quarter of 2021, driven by consumer spending, highlighted a report released by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). With this, GDP grew at an annualized rate of 6.6%, enough to push the United States economy
Evergrande, with around $ 304 billion in total liabilities, including some in offshore markets, has recently seen its bond prices hit difficult levels and its share price fell more than 70% since mid-2021. Against the backdrop of a regulatory campaign to curb the large and highly leveraged real
World GDP would grow 5.9% in 2021 and 4.9% in 2022, according to projections from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released on Tuesday. The new estimates imply a slight downward adjustment for the economic expansion expected in 2021. Before, in 2020, world GDP registered a fall of 3.1
While coffee and flowers were the agricultural products most exported by Colombia in 2019, corn and solid residues of soybean oil (soybeans) were the most imported, according to data from the World Trade Organization (WTO). Colombia is ranked 61st among the world’s largest exporters of products and 53rd